33:2 Give thanks to the Lord with the harp!
Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!
81:2 Sing 1 a song and play the tambourine,
the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
24:8 The happy sound 2 of the tambourines stops,
the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,
the happy sound of the harp ceases.
8:10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, 4
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothes 5
and cause every head to be shaved bald. 6
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; 7
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 8
18:22 And the sound of the harpists, musicians,
flute players, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you 9 again.
No 10 craftsman 11 who practices any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the noise of a mill 12 will never be heard in you again.
1 tn Heb “lift up.”
2 tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).
3 tn Heb “cause to end.”
4 tn Heb “mourning.”
5 tn Heb “I will place sackcloth on all waists.”
sn Mourners wore sackcloth (funeral clothes) as an outward expression of grief.
6 tn Heb “and make every head bald.” This could be understood in a variety of ways, while the ritual act of mourning typically involved shaving the head (although occasionally the hair could be torn out as a sign of mourning).
sn Shaving the head or tearing out one’s hair was a ritual act of mourning. See Lev 21:5; Deut 14:1; Isa 3:24; 15:2; Jer 47:5; 48:37; Ezek 7:18; 27:31; Mic 1:16.
7 tn Heb “I will make it like the mourning for an only son.”
8 tn Heb “and its end will be like a bitter day.” The Hebrew preposition כְּ (kaf) sometimes carries the force of “in every respect,” indicating identity rather than mere comparison.
9 tn The shift to a second person pronoun here corresponds to the Greek text.
10 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
11 tn On this term BDAG 1001 s.v. τεχνίτης states, “craftsperson, artisan, designer…Of a silversmith Ac 19:24, 25 v.l., 38….Of a potter 2 Cl 8:2 (metaph., cp. Ath. 15:2). πᾶς τεχνίτης πάσης τέχνης Rv 18:22.”
12 tn This is a different Greek word (μύλος, mulos) from the one for the millstone in v. 21 (μύλινος, mulinos). See L&N 7.68.